Our Time 1998

Pau[ Clioi A patient man has great understanding, but a quick­ tempered man displays folly. -Proverbs 14:29 That's the greenest grass I've ever seen. -George Ho on a soybean field <Jvf.aurice Cliung The greatest lesson in life is 10 know that even fools are right sometimes -Theodore Roosevelt Grnnt to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external posses.sions be in harmony with my inner man -Plaro Anci the river tlows I am never gonna get it back again -Erasure <JvtarftCiaccio Great were the auxiliaries on our side/We who were strong in love./Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/But to be young was very heaven! -Wordsworth Consider the lilies ofthe field, how they grow;/They toil not and neither do they spin:/ And yet I say to you, that even Solomon/In all his glory was not arrayed like one ofthese. -Matthew 6:28 Jenna Co[6-v I sit two stories above the street. It's awful quiet here since love fell asleep...what makes me think I could start clean slated, the hardest to learn was the least complicated. -Indigo Girls And ifby chance or circum­ stance, we should fail, don't be sad ... in a dream we are connected. -Smashing Pumpkins Squint your eyes and look . closer... -Ani Difranco '?Jf'?J%ww/�'Aen,CWAatt'?J�� 0 nee upon a time, About other people, about even Arbor food seemed play cards with our friends. about three years other places, about other... okay. It wasn't much We would have heavy ago, a young things," said Megan Orwig. different from the cafeteria conversations about issues woman and a young man stepped out of their cars. This young man and woman were soon joined by over two hundred other students.The slamming of car doors, the tentative steps across unfamiliar ground, and the looks of apprehension on all of their faces as they glanced towards the menacing and painful shape of Entelechy signified one thing: two hundred and thirty-four students finding a new home.And they called it IMSA. "I learned things that I never should have learned. It was the year of redefin­ ing ourselves, searching for who we really were, and learning a few things along the way."It was tough adjusting at first, but then everything became spiffy," said Jillian Martens, mus­ ing over sophomore year. At first, study hours were a pain because none of us had ever had to study before (the great pre-IMSA myth). Then the seniors took pity on us and let us in on a little secret: no one will notice if you get up and leave your room - as long as you don't bump into your RC. In the beginning, food at our previous high schools. However, one week later we realized that cafeteria food three times a day isn't a wonderful thing at all.But, many of us turned lemons into lemon­ ades by learning how to cook cheap ramen in the microwave or pasta in a wok. As seniors, we have fond memories of sopho­ more year. That was the one and only year when we would have huge gaps of time with nothing to do."It was the most surreal expe­ rience I've ever had," said Clark Bernier.We would pertinent to teenage life (wonder what those could be?) with more "experi­ enced" upperclassmen.We would spend hours at meals in Arbor because we had nothing better to do.We would take multiple trips over to Eagle and hang out in the magazine aisle. Three years ago, the class of 1998 descended upon the Illinois Mathemat­ ics and Science Academy with a purpose: to make it ours. As Jenny Urbauer said, "If I knew then what I know now... " You fill in the blank.